We performed a comparison between SharePoint and WordPress based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Content Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"The security feature is valuable."
"The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit."
"It is very stable."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Online are content management, document management, and approval processes. Additionally, there are a number of features that provide integration with multiple Office services and external services."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"It offers ease of use, which is crucial."
"The best feature of WordPress is its flexibility."
"It has a vast array of themes which could be applied to make the website visually look more appealing to the target market."
"The themes are useful. They change the look and feel of a website with just one click."
"There are so many free plugins"
"The best feature of WordPress is its user-friendliness and its strong SEO capabilities."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its flexibility, ease of working with, intuitive interface, and ease of finding a huge online community, along with its simplicity of integration with other solutions."
"I like how it integrates graphics and words, and more generally, the way people can develop the choices of spaces for different websites."
"As WordPress is such a popular product, there are many designers and developers available to work on projects."
"The management of the product/back-end is complex."
"The workflow engine cannot support the business needs."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"It is too heavy. MS should not have paid foreign coders dollars per each row of code. They wasted the stability and reliability in the end."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"I understand that some functions are lost when you store the information in a file system, so maybe that's a way SharePoint can improve."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"Make it more intuitive."
"WordPress sites do require quite a bit of maintenance: Constant updates to both WordPress and all the various plugins that it requires."
"One area of improvement is hosting. It should have its file manager regardless of where you host your website."
"I would like to see the addition of social media integration features in WordPress."
"I would recommend dumping the Gutenberg interface, as that is horrible."
"WordPress needs to adapt to new technologies. It also needs to improve scalability. We don't have optimized content and plugins in the tech stack."
"WordPress doesn't automatically scan the website, so we need to install paid plugins for this purpose. Unfortunately, this can lead to slower performance, which is a notable drawback."
"I would like to see a new UI."
"I think that WordPress is too cool in its contact."
SharePoint is ranked 1st in Web Content Management with 146 reviews while WordPress is ranked 2nd in Web Content Management with 28 reviews. SharePoint is rated 7.8, while WordPress is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of WordPress writes "Very customizable, and forms the base for most websites on the Internet". SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and OpenText Documentum, whereas WordPress is most compared with Quintype, Adobe Experience Manager, Liferay Digital Experience Platform, Drupal and TerminalFour Site Manager. See our SharePoint vs. WordPress report.
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